made passable

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While Whiz Bang has never been barred from the mails, occasional issues have been held up until they were made passable; and there are sporadic brushes with local authorities over its sale.

From Time Magazine Archive

The first plan is, To attack the French retrenchment generally; the ditch which is before it, and the morass which lies on our left wing, to be made passable with these fascines.

From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 09 by Carlyle, Thomas

The swamps were made passable by bundles of brushwood thrown into them, the streams were bridged and huts erected for the reception of the white troops.

From By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)

This, with five minutes' work, was made passable for the battery and for the three army wagons which the quartermaster's department had ventured to send out.

From Campaigning in Cuba by Kennan, George

But the track was everywhere passable, or capable of easily being made passable for mules.

From The Story of the Malakand Field Force An Episode of Frontier War by Churchill, Winston